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Seas and Submerged Lands Amendment Proclamation 2019

Authoritative Version
  • - F2019L00421
  • No longer in force
Proclamations/Other as made
This instrument amends the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973 - Proclamation under section 10B (26/07/1994) to revise the limits of Australia's exclusive economic zone in the Timor Sea.
Administered by: Attorney-General's
Exempt from sunsetting by the Legislation (Exemptions and Other Matters) Regulation 2015 s12 item 57A
Registered 26 Mar 2019
Tabling HistoryDate
Tabled HR02-Apr-2019
Tabled Senate02-Apr-2019
Date of repeal 12 Sep 2019
Repealed by Division 1 of Part 3 of Chapter 3 of the Legislation Act 2003
Table of contents.

Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

 

Seas and Submerged Lands Amendment Proclamation 2019

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Proclamation.

Signed and Sealed with the

Great Seal of Australia on

21 March 2019

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Christian Porter

Attorney‑General

 

  

  


Contents

1............ Name............................................................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement............................................................................................................. 1

3............ Authority....................................................................................................................... 1

4............ Schedules...................................................................................................................... 1

Schedule 1—Amendments                                                                                                                          2

Proclamation under Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973                                                          2

 


1  Name

                   This instrument is the Seas and Submerged Lands Amendment Proclamation 2019.

2  Commencement

             (1)  Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  Sections 1 to 4 and anything in this instrument not elsewhere covered by this table

The day after this instrument is registered.

27 March 2019

2.  Schedule 1

The later of:

(a) the start of the day after this instrument is registered; and

(b) the commencement of Schedule 1 to the Timor Sea Maritime Boundaries Treaty Consequential Amendments Act 2019.

However, the provisions do not commence at all if the event mentioned in paragraph (b) does not occur.

30 August 2019

(paragraph (b) applies)

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

             (2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

                   This instrument is made under section 10B of the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973.

4  Schedules

                   Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Amendments

  

Proclamation under Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973

1  Paragraph (d)

Omit “items 2 and 3”, substitute “paragraphs 2(a) to (z) and (zfa) to (zzf), item 3”.

2  After paragraph (d)

Insert:

                   (da)  for the purposes of paragraphs 2(za) to (zf) in the Schedule:

                              (i)  all coordinates are determined by reference to the World Geodetic System 1984; and

                             (ii)  the World Geodetic System 1984 is taken to be equivalent to the Geodetic Datum of Australia 1994; and

3  Before paragraph 2(a) of the Schedule

Insert:

                   Timor Sea West

4  Paragraphs 2(y) to (zf) of the Schedule

Repeal the paragraphs, substitute:

                     (y)  then north‑easterly along the geodesic to the point of Latitude 11°21´05.0987˝ South, Longitude 126°27´55.5956˝ East;

                     (z)  then north‑easterly along the geodesic to the point of Latitude 11°20´05.0996˝ South, Longitude 126°30´55.5968˝ East;

                   Australia/Timor Leste

                    (za)  then along the geodesic to the point of Latitude 11°20´02.90˝ South, Longitude 126°31´58.40˝ East;

                   (zb)  then north‑easterly along the geodesic to the point of Latitude 11°04´37.65˝ South, Longitude 127°39´32.81˝ East;

                    (zc)  then north‑easterly along the geodesic to the point of Latitude 10°55´20.88˝ South, Longitude 127°47´08.37˝ East;

                   (zd)  then north‑easterly along the geodesic to the point of Latitude 10°53´36.88˝ South, Longitude 127°48´49.37˝ East;

                    (ze)  then north‑easterly along the geodesic to the point of Latitude 10°43´37.88˝ South, Longitude 127°59´20.36˝ East;

                    (zf)  then north‑easterly along the geodesic to the point of Latitude 10°29´11.87˝ South, Longitude 128°12´28.36˝ East;

                   Arafura Sea

                  (zfa)  then north‑easterly along the geodesic to the point of Latitude 10°28´05.1256˝ South, Longitude 128°13´55.6444˝ East;

                  (zfb)  then north‑easterly along the geodesic to the point of Latitude 10°26´05.1265˝ South, Longitude 128°17´55.6463˝ East;